341 kg of marijuana recovered from crashed Scorpio at Bhedetar
After a Scorpio jeep crashed near the Skywalk at Bhedetar on the night of 7 October 2026, police detained a man found sitting by the vehicle and recovered 341 kg of marijuana from it. Suspect Amit Vishwakarma, 39, is held and the drugs were taken to the Dhankuta police office.
🇳🇵 Bhedetar, Sangurigadhi-6, Dhankuta · Nepal
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 341 kg
A Scorpio jeep with registration number Ba 13 Cha 6275, travelling from Dhungre toward
Bhedetar, crashed near the Skywalk at Bhedetar in Sangurigadhi-6 at about 11:55 pm on
Tuesday night; police reaching the scene on the crash report detained a man sitting
beside the vehicle and recovered the drugs.[1]
Police recovered 341 kg of marijuana from the crashed Scorpio.[1] The detained man is
39-year-old Amit Vishwakarma, originally of Biratnagar Metropolitan City-9 in Morang and
currently living in Dharan-10, Sunsari, according to Dhankuta police information officer
DSP Hemant Bhandari Kshetri.[1] Police have brought the recovered marijuana to the
District Police Office, Dhankuta.[1]
Sources
- दुर्घटनामा परेको स्कर्पियोबाट ३४१ किलो गाँजा बरामद. Kantipur, 7 October 2026. In Nepali.
Open questions the AI reported
- No second outlet account was found and the report is in Nepali; every fact above comes from the Kantipur report.
- Whether the suspect was the driver and where the consignment was headed were not stated.